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RCPCH responds to JRF’s UK Poverty 2024 Report
23 January 2024
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on poverty in the UK shows 3 in every 10 children in the UK are living in poverty.
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RCPCH responds to the Scottish Budget 2024-25
20 December 2023
The Scottish Government has published its Scottish Budget for 2024 to 2025.
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RCPCH responds to Infection related deaths of children and young people in England report
18 December 2023
The report is compiled of data from the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) to investigate infection related deaths in children and young people.
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RCPCH responds to long awaited vaccine strategy
13 December 2023
NHS England has published its overdue vaccination strategy, ‘Shaping the future delivery of NHS vaccination and immunisation services’.
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Professor Steve Turner elected as new RCPCH President
12 December 2023
Professor Steve Turner will be the next President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and will succeed Dr Camilla Kingdon in spring 2024.
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RCPCH publishes updated position statement on childhood vaccinations
7 December 2023
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has updated its vaccination position statement from 2020 to include recent data on vaccination uptake and key recommendations to UK governments.
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RCPCH responds to worrying health data in latest children's commissioners report on children seeking asylum
30 November 2023
The report highlights several serious health and safeguarding concerns for unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK.
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Health and social workers urge Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Office to reconsider unethical age assessments for children seeking asylum
27 November 2023
Leading paediatricians, dentists and social care workers have written to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary urging him to reconsider the use of x-rays as methods of age assessments for children seeking asylum in the UK.
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RCPCH joins call for politicians to take bold action on clean air
24 November 2023
RCPCH have supported the development of an open letter calling on all political parties to recognise the importance of clean air
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Measles resurgence forces children's doctors to update national guidance ahead of potential outbreak
21 November 2023
Paediatricians are being asked to look out for measles amid the winter season while also calling on Government for the long-awaited vaccine strategy.